Everyone looked seedy again this morning. We were better for sleeping out, but I wasn�t too good myself. Although I hadn�t actually been sick, I was very dizzy and headachy. It took me all my time to keep going. However, we had a lazy morning in the breeze, and I had a good sleep for an hour and a half, then a shower and I felt much better. Of course the ship wasn�t rocking by that time.
This trip so far has been most unusual. It is usually rough in the Bay of Biscay, calm in the Mediterranean, and then very hot towards the equator and Colombo. We have had it calm in the Bay, the Mediterranean was a horror and now the breeze is so strong we have not experienced much of the hot weather which we dreaded.
In the evening we went to a community hymn singing led by a Salvation Army officer. It was lovely, just one and quite full too. The minister on board takes the morning Church of England service. He is going with his family to start a church in Perth. A very nice family.
The Salvation Army officer, along with his wife and two sets of twins are going to New Zealand to be the principals of the Training College for Officers.
Also travelling on this ship is the daughter of Brigadier Warpen, who sailed on the Mooltan on 4th February to be the principal of the Training College at Sydney.
There is also a Roman Catholic Father who is taking a party of orphans to Australia. He takes mass every morning.
After the singsong we went along the deck and found derrick and Mavis Forrest camped out for the night on deck chairs.
We went down for tea and sandwiches, and then to sleep.
Thank goodness the ship was steady. |
